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The Art Center Sinclair Pavilion鈥檚 2,000 square-foot lounge, constructed largely of glass and steel, is open to the surrounding landscape, creating an informal plaza equipped with a small kitchen. Hodgetts + Fung incorporated interactive structural design elements such as a 鈥淟amborghini-like entrance door,鈥� and a large, trapezoidal glass facade that students can open and close by turning a crank 鈥� a design element intended to further students鈥� understanding of physical design and structural dynamics. The project won a Merit Award for Design Excellence from AIA|LA and an Honor Award from the American Institute of Architects Pasadena/Foothill Chapter. Appreciating how the striking juxtaposition of shapes lends a sense of dynamism and action, Jury panelists noted the 鈥渒inetic and transforming aspects of this project and its relationship to a setting of interaction among students who can eat, relax and discuss their work.鈥� Jurors moreover found the structure and its enclosure clearly organized and skillfully detailed, deeming it an 鈥渋nventive project鈥� that 鈥渆merges from the site鈥檚 topography,鈥� and 鈥渃ompletely blurs the definitions between interior and exterior space.鈥�